Re: datestyle

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Crombleholme, Roy" <Roy(dot)Crombleholme(at)its(dot)lancscc(dot)gov(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: datestyle
Date: 2003-05-16 13:23:05
Message-ID: 26320.1053091385@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Crombleholme, Roy" <Roy(dot)Crombleholme(at)its(dot)lancscc(dot)gov(dot)uk> writes:
> I need to be able to set the default to european. I put datestyle =
> european in the postgresql.conf file but postmaster complained about this
> and would not start up.

That works in recent releases (7.3.*), but evidently you're running
something not so recent. I think setting PGDATESTYLE in the
postmaster's environment will work, or add "-e" to the postmaster's
command line flags. Or update to 7.3 ;-)

regards, tom lane

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